So I've decided to take the plunge into Kermit's Pond and do this:
Exhibit A: Is (make that was) the Family Tunic from Weekend Knitting by Melanie Falick, designed by Debbie Bliss. Don't get me wrong, I love this pattern. I love the yarn -- Karabella Marble from School Products - a 50/50 alpaca wool blend. The problem lies in the seed stitch.
The body of the sweater -- actually, all of the sweater except the yoke -- is in k1 p1 seed stitch, on size 7 needles. By the time I finished the front, my fingers were ready to fall off the end of my hands. All that shifting the yarn from front to back. So I let it sit. And sit. And sit.
For 2 years.
Exhibit B:
A cardigan, sized XS, started by TwinB over three years ago, when she was about as big as a toothpick. Now, I'm happy to say, she's taller and, although still slender, not an XS. The yarn is one of my favorites, Kid-n-Ewe by Bryspun, discontinued (sigh), but still bought up by me anytime I find it on ebay.
So all this ripping has led me to formulate a Personal Knitting Rule (hereinafter "PKR").
"If it's on the needles for more than 6 months, rip rip rip."
Believe me, it's not easy. The Family Tunic was hard to let go of. But it was also sending out those invisible waves of knitting guilt -- You should be working on me -- everytime I saw it. So I finally came to my senses and decided to return the yarn to a guilt free state, and am contemplating a new pattern (without the dreaded seed stitch) for it.
Off to get the winder!
PS (said softly as not to offend other hockey knitters, "Go Sabres!")
2 comments:
Wow...six months! You are brutal!
I save my frog festival (aka PKR) for the end of the year (and I thought that was tough!)
Six months, that's nothing - try two years. Yes, and the 2-year old sweater now does not fit the current 4 year old boy. Time for me to rip too. (Shhh - go Canucks go...)
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